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To: Dan3 who wrote (170218)	8/28/2002 12:30:55 PM
From: NITT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan, Get off your horse. If the BAPCO results are factually wrong that is one thing, but if what is documented in the testing is indeed correct regardless of which function BABCO chooses to test, then no fraud has occurred. All companies try to get their product to show best in benchmarking whether it is their own benchmark or a third party benchmark, or in the case of BABCO, a company that was founded and is heavily influenced by a few companies including Intel. They will also try to "sell" people on why this is a refection of the real world. I remember the old saying "lies, damn lies, and benchmarks" from many years ago. The only thing that has changed in the last 30 years is that companies do a much better job of documenting the details behind the benchmark that allows people much smarter then the average consumer to dig into things. AMD's rating system appears to be more misleading to the average retail consumer since it might be easy to confuse their modelhertz with megahertz. I think Cyrix ran into this. I'm sure AMD has a disclaimer on their boxes and in their literature. I doubt FTC would ever take action because consumers probably don't care enough, and AMD's pockets are way to empty. On the other hand, class action lawyers may choose to go after Intel even if a case has no merit just because Intel does have $$$ and does create press for the class action industry. Nitt